Phrase · 🧠 Complex argumentation
Não obstante os avanços, persistem desigualdades profundas.
Notwithstanding the progress, deep inequalities persist.
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Why every word is where it is
Não1adverbnotobstante1adjectivewithstandingsing.osdeterminertheo · masc. · pl. · definiteavançosnounadvancesavanço · masc. · pl.,persistem2verbpersistpersistir · present · 3rd pl.desigualdades2nouninequalitiesdesigualdade · fem. · pl.profundasadjectivedeepprofundo · fem. · pl..
- Não → avanços: não obstante + noun = despite
- desigualdades → persistem: subject after the verb: persistem desigualdades
- desigualdades → profundas: desigualdades profundas
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1«não obstante» works as a preposition (despite) or a connector (nevertheless). Literary & archaic layer: vós, haver de, elevated connectors →
- 2Verb before its subject for emphasis; it still agrees in the plural. Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →